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- Restoration/addition to the Pratt School of Architecture, Brooklyn NY -- Steven Holl
- Dutch Embassy, Berlin -- Rem Koolhaas
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(*****) contested projects in general press
- Sydney Opera House Renovation, Sydney 1998
$66.5 mil
{also ran: Richard Johnson/Denton Corker Marshall, Keith Cottier/Allen Jack and Cottier, Richard Francis-Jones and Rick Thorp/Mitchell Giurgola}
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- The Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou (Canton), China -- URS Greiner
$1 billion, 3.3 mil sf
to accommodate 80 million passengers per year (Chicago's O'Hare, the
busiest U.S. airport, handles 70.4 million)
- Academy Awards Theater, Hollywood -- Rockwell Group/David Rockwell
3,300-seat theater
- UCSF's new Mission Bay campus -- Machado Silvetti
{also ran: Shin Takamatsu, Studios, Dan Solomon, Steven Holl}
- Cranbrook Institute of Science expansion and remodelling, Cranbrook MI -- Steven Holl (Feb98)
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- 600 13th St, Washington DC -- Robert AM Stern
- Miho Museum of Art/Shinji Shumeikai Museum, Kyoto, Japan -- Ieoh Ming Pei
- New Amsterdam Theater, New York 1903, renovation 1997 -- HHP/Hugh Hardy
- Glass Center 2000, Corning NY - Henry Smith Miller, Laurie Hawkinson
~ opened Nov97
- Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BNIA), Buffalo NY -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
~ opened 03-Nov97
258,000sf, $158 mil
- Museum of New Zealand, Wellington -- ?
~ opened 14-Feb98
- Fondation Beyeler, near Basel, Switzerland -- Renzo Piano
~ opened Oct97
- PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY -- Frederick Fisher
~ opened Oct97
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- The Getty Center, (Westwood Hills) near Brentwood, Los Angeles
CA 1984-1997 -- Richard Meier
-- "commission of the century" --
945,000 sf, 110-acre cultural center, $1 billion and counting
with 1,200-car garage (600-space parking garage plinth?)
on a 742-acre mountaintop
326,000 sf collection of art masterworks; 750,000 books on Art History
(also ran: Batey & Mack, Henry Cobb Jr, Romaldo Giurgola, Fumihiko Maki, James Stirling, Robert Venturi)
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- Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney Australia 1959-1973 -- Jorn Utzon (reappeared 1997-1998)
$66 million (US at current exchange rates); Utzon left in 1966
proposed interior renovation 1998
$66.5 mil
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